Esther Pugh (August 31, 1834 – March 29, 1908) was an American temperance reformer of the long nineteenth century.

Considered to be a clear and forcible orator, she traveled for temperance work throughout the United States and Canada, lecturing and organizing unions.

[1] Succeeding Mary Towne Burt,[3] Pugh served as publisher and editor of the monthly temperance journal, Our Union, for years.

[5] Because of her journalistic experience, Pugh was called upon to provide guidance for the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church's periodical, Woman's Home Missions, regarding typeset and how to make up a "dummy".

She was appointed a Trustee of Earlham College by Indiana Yearly Meeting, and held that position until failing health made it necessary for her to resign.